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94% of teams use coding agents. 6% have changed how they work. Notes from State of AI: SDLC
On September 22, Atlassian ran a webinar called State of AI: SDLC. It's been over a month that I've convinced myself of writing this article to share with the community, and finally got to it. Atlassian called it the largest simultaneous digital event in the company's history, with more than 30,000 registrations. Mike…
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Your Rovo agents will only ever be as smart as the ceremonies feeding them
I work on agile-ceremony tooling in the Marketplace, so I'll keep this app-agnostic. But the point holds whatever stack you run, or none. Whether you went to Team '26 or just read the recaps, the headline was hard to miss: agents everywhere, the Teamwork Graph thrown open, Rovo moving from "assistant that answers" to…
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Is the future agent-driven? Five takeaways from the AI Masterclass (Ep4)
I sat in on Quiz Wiz's AI Masterclass Ep4: "Is the future agents-driven?" this week, and it was the most level-headed hour on AI agents I've heard in a while. I build agent tooling for agile teams, so I came in with a bias; I left with a cleaner way to explain a few things to the teams I work with. Sharing the parts that…
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Beyond the Burnup: Connecting Jira Data to Team Ceremonies for Healthier Sprints
Co-authored by Luis Ortiz (Catapult Labs) & Yong Yang (Forge5) Scrum teams generate a massive amount of data every sprint, but data alone doesn't fix broken processes. A recent IDC report (and many other reputable sources) surfaces that the average knowledge worker spends nearly 30% of the workday just looking for internal…
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Collaboration apps designed to increase productivity and engagement: Catapult Labs
This month, we’re excited to feature Catapult Labs, the team behind Agile Retrospectives for Jira—a popular app that’s transforming how distributed Agile teams run their ceremonies. We had a conversation with Monica Tye, Product Lead at Catapult Labs, to learn more about the company's journey, mission, and what’s next. Q:…
